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[Inatun]

I don't know if this is the right board for this since it's a question that arosed when I was browsing legends mode in the Legends Viewer utility, but I'm sure someone can point me in the right direction if they can't answer it here.

I was taking notes on the deities of a dwarven civilization as a sort of cheat sheet for doing a story/let's play and I found something weird. As I was working through them, jotting down their forms and spheres, I noticed that one of the deities, Bokbon, was a deitiy of The Oil of Crafts.

The thing is, I was looking at the civilization page for The Godly Syrup. After a bit of digging I found that the king of The Godly Syrup was a worshipper of Bokbon.

Does anyone have any ideas as to how this happened?

[celem]

Well Im assuming the Godly Syrup were dwarves yes?  Did you check to see what species The Oil of Crafts was?

Worship and deities differ among races: Dwarves and Humans worship multiple deities, most of which are often depicted as their own race, though on occasion they may worship a deity that is depicted as an animal or vermin.

-wiki, Deity

Its a bit unclear from this quote whether the only options are own-race/animal/vermin or whether a dwarf can actually worship say...a human-formed god.

[Inatun]

Yes, The Godly Syrup and The Oil of Crafts are both dwarven civilizations.

What I'm talking about though is the idea that pantheons are unique to each civilization. Yet, somehow, we have a citizen of The Godly Syrup, the king himself, worshipping a god of The Oil of Crafts.

He was born in 17 and is still alive in the year 130, but there's no record of him doing anything until 95 when he became king. His profile shows his only related entities are the local government of a hillock and its parent civ, The Godly Syrup.

One strange thing is though, even though he wasn't one of the first of his kind, being born in 17 and all, legends mode says he was of unknown parentage. I have no idea if that's relevant or not but it seemed interesting so I thought I'd throw it out there.

Did I answer all your questions?

[Untrustedlife]

Ithink spread of religion is simmed, so its entirely possible for people to worship foreign deities. It may also be taht the person joined your civ after being a member of another.

[TheFlame52]

I've seen it happen in human civs that shared land. The civs interbreed and the children take the gods of both parents. Eventually you'll have dwarves worshipping two whole pantheons and three megabeasts.

[Aleksanderus]

I've seen it happen in human civs that shared land. The civs interbreed and the children take the gods of both parents. Eventually you'll have dwarves worshipping two whole pantheons and three megabeasts.

Here's the example of what could happen in my fort:
UristMcRandomCultist: Hey, isn't that our hydra that we worship?

UristMcAnotherCultist: Yes it is, let's kill it!

UristMcAnotherCultist punches Hydra in the lower body and it explodes in gore!

Hydra is slain!

UristMcAnotherCultist: It was inevitable!

[Flintfakeer]

Heresy grows in our idleness... But seriously though It's a pretty cool mechanic. Parentage is involved, as theflame52 said, and I think maybe the civ they are born to can also effect it but i do not know. It is a very new mechanic and I'm pretty sure that under certain circumstances dwarves can actually adopt the worship of gods within their pantheon(s). I'm not 100% percent on megabeast worship but I assume that it is at least partially adopted as well and not inherent as that would mean a beast couldn't be worshiped if it was birthed after world gen.